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The golden age of chemistry

Nature volume 386, page 34 (1997)Cite this article

Laws and Order in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

by Alistair Duncan Oxford University Press: 1996. Pp. 253. £50, $90 A History of Chemistry by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers Harvard University Press: 1997. Pp. 294. $35, £25

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